im blorg

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this is one of arora's saddest lines to me. obviously she has about ten million to pick from, but it just hits really hard when you consider that everyone (other than otto) in her life has left in some way shape or form.

arora is someone who longs for connections that she can never quite make. for all her dreams about anton, the time she calls him "dad" and not "father" moments before he tries to kill her, following in his footsteps as a chemist, she can't ever make anton love her.

she finds common ground with dr kusamura - and converses with him with otto completely out of the picture, which is likely not something that she gets to do often - but he betrays her.

the trial victims, who she sees as her "boys", get killed by reagents.

otto, in one voiceline, compares arora to tantalus from greek myth. tantalus' punishment for offending the gods is to be eternally thirsty and hungry, but all food and water moves just out of reach from him whenever he tries to nourish himself. arora experiences something similar but with emotional connection. she tries and tries and tries to quench her loneliness, but every time it seems like she has a connection with someone other than otto, it gets ripped away from her. this likely reinforces their codependency - otto, physically, is the one person who cannot abandon her. but as much as she cares about him, it isn't enough to stop her feeling lonely.